Researchers have uncovered how a disease-causing bacterium uses a single protein to interfere with the body's defenses in ...

What's in your supplements could soon change. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering whether to allow new ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that light plays a key role in how animals perceive environmental threats, ...

Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have identified a bacterium strongly associated with noma disease ...

The first human case of H9N2 influenza virus (bird flu) has been reported in Europe. A human infection was recorded by the ...

Bronchiectasis is a long-term health condition in which airways are constantly irritated or inflamed, leading to permanent airway damage and a buildup of mucus. This often causes a chronic cough and ...

Your doctor has just prescribed medicinal cannabis. You think it's helping. But you rely on your car to get to work and pick ...

Family physicians who report feeling burned out are nearly 1.5 times more likely to change practices or stop practicing ...

Loneliness is often described as a simple absence—of people, of connection, of companionship. But two new studies suggest it ...

A Stanford study shows that jail-based hepatitis C programs could cut new infections by nearly half among people who inject ...

Erica Periandri and Gabor Egervari, from Washington University in St. Louis, led a study to explore how alcohol exposure in ...

What is the optimal way to learn something new? In a JNeurosci paper, John Byrne and colleagues, from the University of Texas ...